Joe Biden’s legacy on North Korea is a whole lot of nothing

US president carried on a bipartisan tradition of deprioritizing Pyongyang, even as it further developed its nukes

Joe Biden’s legacy on North Korea is a whole lot of nothingJoe Biden’s legacy on North Korea is a whole lot of nothing

President Joe Biden participates in a phone call in the Oval Office on Oct. 7, 2024. | Image: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz

Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Rob York, director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

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